Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

20, 35 ), Festus ( l. c .), and Pseudo-Asconius ; but in all his other books Livy observes a distinction which has been pointed out by Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl ( Parerga zu Plautus, & c. p. 290 ), that ludi magni is the term applied to extraordinary games originating in a vow ( ludi votivi ), while ludi Romani is that applied to the games when they were regularly established as annual ( ludi stati ).

Festus, on the contrary ( s. v. Ausoniam ), related that it was founded by Auson, a son of Ulysses and Circe ; a tradition which indicates that it was an ancient Ausonian city, previous to its conquest by the Samnites.

Festus describes her as identical with a " women's goddess " named Damia, which Georges Dumézil sees as an ancient misreading of Greek " Demeter ".

Festus gives it as a most ancient custom for marriage ceremonies.

Festus gives the etymology as well as the meaning of many words, and his work throws considerable light on the language, mythology and antiquities of ancient Rome.

The context of the passage is the period following the death of Porcius Festus, and the journey to Alexandria by Lucceius Albinus, the new Roman Procurator of Judea, who held that position from 62 AD to 64 AD.

Agrippa II, son of Agrippa I, was asked, with his sister Berenice, by the Roman Procurator of Judea, Porcius Festus, to assist in the mini-trial of the Apostle Paul.

Tertullus before Antonius Felix makes the first recorded use of the plural " Nazarenes " ( the plural form of the Iesous ho Nazoraios " Jesus of Nazareth ") to refer to Christians, though the use of the term " Christians " is already used at Antioch, and, somewhat ironically, by Herod Agrippa II in the next trial of Paul before Porcius Festus.

The 2nd-century AD grammarian Festus defined penus, however, as " the most secret site in the shrine of Vesta, which is surrounded by curtains.

Town legend claims the name was chosen by a church ceremony where a Bible was opened blindly and the first proper name encountered was that of Porcius Festus, the governor of Judea around 60 AD ( Acts 24: 27 ).

Olympian Village is serviced by the volunteer Hematite Fire Protection District that operates a station in nearby Festus.

Festus underwent many changes and incorporations, but it remains a singular example of a piece of work virtually completed in youth, and never supplanted or reinforced by later achievements of its author.

The subsequent poems of Bailey, The Angel World ( 1850 ), The Mystic ( 1855 ), The Age ( 1858 ), and The Universal Hymn ( 1867 ), were failures, and the author adopted the unfortunate expedient of endeavouring to buoy them up by incorporating large extracts in the later editions of Festus, with the effect only of sinking the latter, which ultimately extended to over 40, 000 lines.

In the episode " Alias Festus Haggen ", he is mistaken for a robber and killer whom he has to expose to free himself ( both parts played by Curtis ).

In a comic relief episode (" Mad Dog "), another case of mistaken identity forces Festus to fight three sons of a man killed by his cousin.

When Milburn Stone left the series for health reasons for several episodes in 1971, Pat Hingle played his temporary replacement physician, Dr. John Chapman, whose presence was at first roundly resisted by Festus, a bickersome but close friend of Doc Adams.

His mother, Isabelle Flipper, and his father, Festus Flipper, a shoemaker and carriage-trimmer, were owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a wealthy slave dealer .< ref name = Flipper >

As " Ra " ( see below ), the town was noted in the 4th century AD by the geographer Rufus Festus Avienus.

* Festus, a poem by the English poet Philip James Bailey

The 4th century Roman poet Rufus Avienus Festus, writing on geographical subjects in Ora Maritima (" Seacoasts "), a document inspired by a Greek mariners ' Periplus, related that the Oestriminis ( Extreme West in Latin ) was peopled by the Oestrimni, a people that had been living there for a long time ; they had to flee their homeland after an invasion of serpents.

Of these opinions the third, which is also given by Festus, seems to come nearest the truth.

Although in the historical era the pontifex maximus was the head of Roman state religion, Festus says that in the ranking of priests, the rex sacrorum was of highest prestige, followed by the flamines maiores.

According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

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In that chapter, Eusebius first describes the background including Festus, and mentions Clement and Hegesippus.

Paul also wrote an epitome, which has survived, of Sextus Pompeius Festus ' De significatu verborum.

In 501, the senator Rufius Postumius Festus, a supporter of Laurentius, accused Symmachus of various crimes.

Despite the outcome of the synod, Laurentius returned to Rome, and for the next four years, according to the " Laurentian Fragment ", he held its churches and ruled as pope with the support of the senator Festus.

At last Theodoric withdrew his support of Laurentius in 506, instructing Festus to hand over the Roman churches to Symmachus.

According to Zonaras, Eutropius, and Festus, Carus won a major victory against the Persians, taking Seleucia and the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon ( near modern Al-Mada ' in, Iraq ), cities on opposite banks of the Tigris.

Other sources are Cicero, Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Valerius Maximus, Plutarch's Life of Numa Pompilius, Festus ' summaries of Verrius Flaccus, and in later writers, including several of the Church Fathers.

According to Dumezil, Festus ' identification of Bona Dea with Damia infers a foundation date in or shortly after 272 BC, after Rome's capture of Tarentum ; but Cicero claimed the goddess ' cult as coeval with Rome's foundation.

Festus identifies her only as a dea paganorum, " goddess of the pagans.

The " flowing stone " … must not be confused with the stone of the same name which, according to Festus, was the gateway to the underworld.

The 2nd-century grammarian Festus explains their name as the participle of the Latin verb nitor, niti, nixus, " to support oneself ," also " strive, labor ," in this sense " be in labor, give birth.

According to Festus ( 203: 19 ), " Ops is said to be the wife of Saturn.

Initially on the fringes of Dodge society, Festus was slowly phased-in as a reliable sidekick / part-time deputy to Matt Dillon when Reynolds left in 1965.

The Apostle Paul employs the term apologia in his trial speech to Festus and Agrippa when he says " I make my defense " ().

According to Festus, she changed her name to Gaia Caecilia ( called Gaia Cyrilla in Boccaccio's On Famous Women ) when she arrived at Rome, although some Roman historians also commonly spelled her name Caia Caecilia or Caia Cyrilla.

His character took on a more sinister demeanor on the November 27 episode of SmackDown when he revealed that he had converted Luke Gallows, who had previously been portrayed as the mentally incompetent wrestler Festus, to the straight-edge lifestyle which had rid him of his mental troubles.

However, such a speculation is uncertain especially considering a minimum of two years from when Claudius Lysias sent Paul to the Procurator Marcus Antonius Felix in c. AD 57 / 58, to within the first few months of the new Procurator Porcius Festus who rules from AD 60-62 ().